Word Finder - context

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The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

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In what context did your attack on him happen? - We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.

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The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.

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Without any context, I can't tell you if the "dish" refers to the food, or the thing you eat it on.

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The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.

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The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

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For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

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To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

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Knit or woven together; close; firm.

That said, he would set out the broader context for manufacturing.

Setting guidelines can help in defining the context of your search.

The first section lays out the basics of the "wider organizational context" mentioned above.

What is important is the social context of the organization for health.

The toneof the president's speech was just right in the context of current tragic events.

But in its new context, this meaning can hardly be retained.

The course aims to examine the cultural context of the built environment and the relationships between design and society.

The context of the word completely changes the meaning.

The course places the history of medicine in a social and cultural context.

In other cases the pronunciation can be ascertained only from the context, as in use, unvoiced for the substantive, voiced for the verb.

There is a mention of Marcion in the same context, but it is unintelligible.

Dr. Cummins places the story of the Picts in its historical context.

In the wider context, dementia services need to be considered.

Use the context clues surrounding the word to interpret its meaning.

Be sure to look for context clues if a homonym is giving you trouble.

The context of the religious debates was current when the plays were written and performed.

In the context of the situation, the statement made sense.

There is also a need to understand the more specific context, in which racism is reproduced in society on an everyday basis.

Then the teacher can move from that to a classroom context.

A bathing suit is appropriate in the context of a pool party, but not in that of a wedding.

In this context, we seek concrete realization of our commitments at the fifth Review Conference of the BWC.

An evangelistic sermon delivered within the context of Sunday morning worship is very different from an evangelistic sermon delivered on a street corner.

These dosages should always be reviewed in the context of the age, weight and general health of the person taking the tinctures.

What is said of this affair interrupts the original context of chap. xviii., to which the insertion has been clumsily fitted by an interpolation in the second half of ver.

But in its new context this meaning can hardly be retained.

Within the context of family life, this causes immense pressure.

This was presented in the form of a precise scale maquette placed in the context of an architectural model.

In the present context, where there are no expected benefits for the participant, this phrase appears meaningless.

The proposed research will explore the concept of situated learning in the context and accomplishment of safety in technologically mediated medical work.

Surely we cannot afford to ignore so omnipresent a human activity in the context of learning?

The run 3 resource context was highly restrictive, while the run 4 context was very permissive.

For Harris the ability to value life and express preferences in the context of a future defines personhood.

If you have a plasmid that might be interesting to sequence in this context please contact Christopher Thomas.

A similar format was followed during the closing plenary which examined issues of concern in the context of legal education in Europe.

The deliberations of the 3rd plenum took place in the context of developments nationally and internationally which put great demands on the Party.

This project aims to explore the gendered global political economy of governance in the context of globalization.

It is often seen in the context of " all practicable steps " or " best practicable means.

The Importance of Context A woman entered the Democratic primary for governor of the state of Texas.

In the context of (constraint) logic programming, part of this problem reduces to figuring out how to query a program.

Now they can be heard together in the context of this exciting new quintet.

As true business stars, the best rainmakers are excellent performers in the context of the firm's values.

They have never been fully realized, however, within the context of French to Russian revolutionary history.

In the context of land reform in South Africa, their success is bucking a trend.

In the context of the model this works by mutual reinforcement.

The second form of relativity might be called relativity to the context of inquiry.

In the context of working applications where there is often a difference between the schema in use and the ' standard ' namespace schema.

Top of page How I teach the schwa Fast dictation I find this activity useful for introducing the schwa in context.

The second approach focused on phoneme segmentation and blending in the context of sounding out actual words.

In the context of racially segregated America, the play looks inwards to explore the pressures upon family unity.

Create a TCP server socket on a port, using the default authentication context.